Monday, February 9, 2009

Duchamp and Circles


if you know my work, you know i like the circles! i haven't quite figured out why i like to work w/them so much, but i'm always interested to find out more and more about them. I'm reading a bio on Marcel Duchamp and he liked circles too! When describing the work above, Chocolate Grinder No.2 he says:
Always there has been a necessity for circles in my life, for, how do you say, rotation. It is a kind of onanism. The machine goes round, and by some miraculous process i have always found fascinating, produces chocolate.
he later used this image, (the real chocolate grinder only had 2 grinders) in The Large Glass.

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